I richly enjoyed the men’s john at the Maple Court, where, cantilevered slightly forward over the urinal, I could brood over the plashing clear stream while Guy Lombardo or Sammy Kaye or Shep Fields or some other glutinously innocuous band rumbled faintly from the jukebox beyond the walls.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

A deep depression in the middle, partially filled with water, was ringed by concave slopes that cantilevered dangerously over the water.

Orson Scott Card -- Ender’s Game

A massive cantilevered glass ceiling opened onto a view of the night sky.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels

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He had the knack of making the kindliness of his smile add to, not detract from his solemn appearance of dignity; his long, thin, hooked nose did detract from the kindliness, but it added to the dignity; his stomach, cantilevered over his legs, did detract from the dignity, but it added to the kindliness.

Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

The bars of the E were cantilevered on stilts out over a steep canyon, so if I looked out a window, I felt like I was floating.

James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment

That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some goddam cantilevered goldfish in some goddam cantilevered goldfish bowl while the goddam foul black tiers of flak were bursting and booming and billowing all around and above and below him in a climbing, cracking, staggered, banging, phantasmagorical, cosmological wickedness that jarred and tossed and shivered, clattered and pierced, and threatened to annihilate them all in one…

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

In Europe the nuns wear bonnets like cantilevered beach houses.

Don DeLillo -- Underworld

You crossed an endless, rickety cantilever bridge after pausing on the Virginia bank to pay a one-dollar toll.

Russell Baker -- Growing Up

Living-quarters often were cantilevered out from precipices, or hung on heavy chains that had been carried up by teams of mountaineers.

Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

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Gravity reached its tentacles out and grabbed the silver cylinder with its cantilevered wings.

Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

My mother grew up at the ocean’s edge, in sight of the ancient Chinese fishing nets cantilevered from long bamboo poles and dangling over the water like giant cobwebs.

Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

At the steps of the Missing outpatient department the bougainvillea was in full bloom, concealing the pillars of the carport so that the roof appeared to be cantilevered.

Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

Her left hand twitched slightly as it hung in the air, cantilevered by foothills of rolled fat.

Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

It was Roark’s house, but its walls were now of red brick, its windows were cut to conventional size and equipped with green shutters, two of its projecting wings were omitted, the great cantilevered terrace over the sea was replaced by a little wrought-iron balcony, and the house was provided with an entrance of Ionic columns supporting a broken pediment, and with a little spire supporting a weather vane.

Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some goddam cantilevered goldfish in some goddam cantilevered goldfish bowl while the goddam foul black tiers of flak were bursting and booming and billowing all around and above and below him in a climbing, cracking, staggered, banging, phantasmagorical, cosmological wickedness that jarred and tossed and shivered, clattered and pierced, and threatened to annihilate them all in one…

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

Their pace quickened, and he felt as though he were flying along with his feet off the ground as they trotted in resolute cadence up the wide marble staircase to the upper landing, where still two more inscrutable military policemen with hard faces were waiting to lead them all at an even faster pace down the long, cantilevered balcony overhanging the immense lobby.